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EULOGY 



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BY FRANCIS KINLOCH 



Of Georgetown S. C. 







NEW YORK 

PRIVATELY PRINTED 
1867 



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EULOGY 

O N 
George Waijhington, Efq. deceafed, 

Late COMMANDER in CHIEF of 

THE AMERICAN ARMIES, and 

SOME TIME PRESIDENT of the 

UNITED STATES. 

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" Quid illo cive tuliflet, 
" Natura in terris, quid Roma beatius unquam ?" 



" Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudefque manebunt.' 



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GEORGETOIVN, S. C. 
Printed by JOHN B U R D. 

M D C C C. 



ADVERTISEMENT. 

THE compofition, now with all due deference 
offered to the public, was originally prepared at the 
requejl of Jome of the inhabitants of Georgetown, 
with a view to its being delivered in the Epifcopal 
Church, on the lid of February lajl ; but various cir- 
cumftances intervened, and the author with pleafure 
Jaw the tajk to which he felt himjelf incompetent de- 
volve upon the very refpeElable and reverend gentle- 
man, whofe more peculiar province it is to addrefs 
the public in that f acred place, and who was every 
way Jo well qualified to do jujlice to theJubjeSf : He 
could not however, deny himjelj the JatisfaElion of 
manifefting his readinefs to comply with the wifhes 
of his fellow citizens, as far as the powers of his 
mind adtnit, and he embraces with readinefs the op- 
portunity thus accidentally offered him of tefiifying 
his veneration for the memory of General Wash- 
ington. 



X^<rMI^<rMIXMXMI>OXX 



EULOGY 



ON THE LATE 



George Wafliington, Efq. deceafed. 



Fellow Citizens — 

THE bafe ingratitude of popular governments 
has been long a proverbial expreflion, but the 
conduft of the people of America will, I truft, 
have given rife to an opinion more honorable to 
human nature; it will have been obferved, that 
thofeof our country men who had the merit to deferve, 
had alfo the happinefs to receive the grateful thanks 
of their fellow citizens ; that they have been efteemed 
when living, and lamented in death : And what more 
ftriking proof of this truth, fo confoling to the mind, 
fo ufeful to fociety, fo full of encouragement to the 
efforts of honorable ambition could be alledged, 
than the circumftances which marked the life of 

our 



( 6 ) 

our late Commander in Chief, and the univerfal 
grief which has been occafioned by the event on 
which I now folicit your attention ? I proceed with 
confidence therefore, and with a degree of melan- 
choly fatisfadlion, to take a tranfient view of the 
many amiable and valuable qualities which adorned 
that illuftrious charader : A charadter alike diftin- 
guifbed for a pious refignation to the decrees of 
Providence, and for unconquerable refolution in 
every emergency : For moderation in fuccefs, for 
patience in adverfity, for prudence when retreat was 
unavoidable, joined to all the adlive valour of at- 
tack, and tor a degree of integrity as unbounded as 
the confidence of his countrymen. Such was Gen- 
eral George Wafhington. 

He was born the iith of February, 1732, of 
refpeftable parents, whofe circumftances were eafy, 
but, fortunately for his country, and for himfelf, not 
fuch as left him ignorant of the necelTity he was un- 
der of relying upon the efforts of his own mind in 
his paflage through life. His mother was of the 
family of Lewis ; her blamelefs life was extended to 
a very advanced age, and the venerable matron 
might enjoy in common with all America, the ad- 
vantages which flowed from his condud both in the 
cabinet and in the field, with the peculiar felicity of 
having given birth to the hero and the ftatefman, 
who was the guardian of his native country. Of 
his father, he had been deprived at a very early peri- 
od,and was brought up under the care and protedion 
of a near relation, who bore a Major's commiffion 
in the Britifh Provincial fervice. To this laft men- 
tioned circumftance may be attributed his early at- 
tachment to the profeffion of arms, and the alacrity 
with which he undertook and executed a commiffion, 
replete with dangers and difficulties, at the requeft 
of the Governor and Council of Virginia. That 

never 



( 7 ) 

never ceafing iealoufv, that reftlefs fpirit of inve- 
terate contention, that madncfs of ambition, which 
has fo frequently convulfed all Europe, had armed 
two powerful and rival nations againft each other, 
and thofe refources which might have promoted to 
fo great a degree the internal profperity of each, were 
expended in a long and bloody conteft for the nomi- 
nal dominion of fome of the more remote parts of 
our continent. 

The fituation of Virginia, expofed as a Briti(h 
Province to the hoftility of favages in the pay of 
France, rendered it neceflary to afcertain the inten- 
tions of that government, and to watch the firft 
motions of their troops. It was with this view that 
our General, then almoft a youth, was called upon 
to expofe himfelf with but one companion, to the 
dangers of the wildernefs. 

The pomp and pride of war, and every glorious 
circumftance of martial parade, may elevate the 
foldier's mind, and render him infenfible to the dan- 
gers which furround him; but that refolution which 
braves, that fortitude which chearfuUy encounters a 
horde of treacherous, fecret and inexorable foes, 
muft be founded on fentiments which rife far above 
the temporary effeds of military cnthufiafm. 

Having fortunatelyexecuted this firft commifTion, 
he was again fent forth with an armed party, and 
with the rank of Major, for the protedion of the 
inhabitants of the frontiers, but the force employed 
proving unequal to the occafion, his efforts were un- 
availing, and the expedition ultimately unfortunate. 
Soon did this inferior warfare affume a more ferious 
appearance ; an army arrived from England, under 
a leader of reputation, and our late general attended 
Braddock to that fatal field, where difcipline was 
feen to yield to the irregular attack of favages, and 
the veterans of Europe were put to flight by the bar- 
barians 



( 8 ) 

barians of the foreft. It was then, amidft the confu- 
fion attendant upon defeat, amidft carnage, and the 
yells of an unrelenting enemy, that the cool and 
deliberate refolution of our hero was confpicuous. 
A body of Provincials under his command, covered 
the rear of that part of the army which effected a 
retreat, and entitled themfelves and their commander 
to the acknowledgements of the unfortunate general 
in his laft moments. 

The long and bloody war which followed was at 
length ended by the treaty of Verfailles, and Gene- 
ral Waft\ington, at this time bearing the rank of 
Colonel, was reftored to the bofom of his family, 
and to the habits of domeftic life. It ever pleafes 
the Almighty Ruler of the Univerfe to make ufe of 
fecondary caufes in the promotion of thofe great 
events which his wifdom prepares. It was in this 
calm and retired interval of our General's life, that 
he became more peculiarly fitted for the important 
duties which awaited him. Nature had given him a 
robuft frame, courage, and personal activity, and 
the fcenes of the late war had enabled him to ac- 
quire a confiderable portion of military experience; 
but it was in communing with himfelf, it was in the 
order and arrangement of his own concerns, it was 
in the government of his paflions in private life, 
that he could alone acquire that experience which 
might enable him to regulate the important affairs of 
a great community, to deted the artifices of inter- 
efted men, and to controul the pafTions of an armed 
hoft 

The circumftances which led to the late Revolu- 
tion are too recent and too generally known to per- 
mit their being recapitulated. This great event, 
which the forefight of politicians had placed in fome 
remote period, and after a long feries of revolving 
years, came unexpedledly upon mankind ; it came 

like 



( 9 ) 

like a flafh of eledric fluid from the bofom of a dark 
and gloomy cloud, and we at once beheld with aftonifli- 
ment this firft link of a long chain of moft important 
circumftances. The world has now learnt the proper 
limits of colonial obedience, it has learnt to value 
as it ought, the obligations of that imaginary law, 
which, in return for protedlion and afliftance in the 
firft inftance, had configned the induftry, the talents 
and the growing knowledge of the colony, to the 
exclufive advantage of the metropolis forever. The 
opprefled of all nations have learnt the fecret of their 
ftrength, and the powerful may now fee, that no 
difparity of numbers, no preponderance of wealth, 
no fuperiority of difcipline, can finally fucceed a- 
gainft thofe who are united, and whofe caufe is 
good. 

A majority of the people having determined to 
refift the pretenfions of the parent ftate, it became 
neceflary to form an army, and to appoint a general 
to the command of it ; nor can any circumftance 
better convey an idea of the extreme modefty of 
him whofe merit created unanimity upon this occa- 
fion, than the expreflions which accompanied his 
acceptance of this great appointment. The tafk was 
indeed an arduous one, for although the various 
ranks of fociety exprefled their fenfe of the com- 
mon caufe, and numbers appeared ready to rifle their 
lives and their properties in defence of it, yet were 
they but flightly imprefled with any idea of fubordin- 
ation, the immediate leaders of their own choice 
were without experience, and many of the moft 
eflential articles of war were wanting ; Let the world 
admire therefore, and let us remember with grati- 
tude, that ftrength of mind which could encounter 
fuch complicated difficulties, and the wifdom and 
energy of that fyftem which could induce freemen 
and volunteers to fubmit to the duties and difcipline 

of 



( »o ) 

of a camp ; which could call forth fuch talents as 
were beft fuited to the various departments of an 
army, and thus by degrees, convert the tumultuary 
array of an undifciplined yeomanry into a regular 
force, capable of making head againft the veteran 
army of the enemy. 

I fhall not prefume to call your attention to the 
regular courfe of events which followed ; but there 
are fome circumftances which ought in a more par- 
ticular manner, to be imprefTed upon our minds, 
fome moments of that arduous conteft which we 
cannot too frequently refled upon. Behold our 
General after entering Bofton in triumph, haftening 
to the defence of New-York, and meafuring his 
ftrength with a fuperior enemy upon the plains of 
Long Ifland ! See him effedting a retreat in the dead 
of night, and in the face of a great naval force, a 
retreat not lefs glorious than vidtory, and retiring, 
after fome inefFedlual ftruggles, through the Jerfies 
towards Pennfylvania ! Admire that fortitude, which, 
flowing from confcious integrity, and from a well 
grounded confidence in the refources of his coun- 
try, could uphold him from defpair in the word of 
times, and could enable him to animate an unfor- 
tunate army to undergo the fevereft toil with alacri- 
ty, and to endure with perfeverance the moft accumu- 
lated diftrefs ! Obferve him hovering around the 
enemy, circumfcribing their quarters, and yet not 
putting it in their power to force him to aftion, 
availing himfelf of their fituation by protracting the 
war in a country to them equally remote from fup- 
plies, and from recruits, and yet ready to feiz'e 
every opportunity which their negligence or their 
temerity might offer to their difadvantage ! See him 
prefled upon in his turn, and extricating himfelf 
by a movement at once bold and prudent ; a move- 
ment in which the moft fecret determination was fol- 
lowed 



( II ) 

lowed by the moft rapid execution, and which ex- 
pofed the enemy to the mortification of being at- 
tacked and routed in a diftant quarter, when on the 
point as they fuppofed themfelves of putting an end 
to all refiftance ! Behold him after every arrange- 
ment which could fecure fuccefs, yielding the field 
of battle to fuperior difcipline, referving himfelf for 
better times, and attacking in a few weeks afterwards 
with a fpirit, which though unfuccefsfully exerted, 
was fuch as to convince the foe of the impoffibility 
of conqueft ! 

An efficient government, with proper means 
for calling forth the refources of the nation and car- 
rying on the war with vigor did not yet exift, the 
confederation of the ftates was far from adequate to 
the occafion, the requifitions of congrefs were ren- 
dered fruitlefs by fupinefs, and by a thoufand jarring 
interefts, whilft the brave defenders of the com- 
mon caufe were left expofed to many of the wants 
of nature in the moft inclement feafons. What ad- 
drefs did it not require to keep together an army fo 
circumftanced? Andwhat equity and moderation muft 
have been exercifed by him who could mediate be- 
tween the ftarving foldier and the cultivator of the 
foil ? A degree of order in the midft of unavoidable 
violence — an appearance of juftice — a promife of 
future retribution, and above all, the confoling 
accents of the General reconciled that induftrious 
order to a violation of property, which they faw 
was inevitable, whilft the eflentials of difcipline 
preferved the army from the evils of licentioufnefs: 
It now confifted of a fmall but faithful band of ve- 
terans, labouring under many difficulties, and fre- 
quently without that degree of encouragement which 
is derived from fuperior numbers — and we can never 
forget thatattachmentto the perfons of their officers, 
that confidence in the abilities of their chief, and 

above 



( I^- ) 

above all, that firmnefs in the caufe of their country, 
which rendered them infenfible to the allurements 
held out to them from New-York, and to the wretched 
contraft of their fituation with that of the oppofite 
army. 

From fcenes which occurred immediately within 
the dirediion of the General in Chief, let me for 
a moment call your attention to thofe where other 
Commanders adling under his aufpices, experi- 
enced a refiftance lefs fatal to the American arms. 
— Let it be remembered, that he availed himfelf in 
the North of the confummate prudence of Gates, 
aided by the impetuous courage of him, who can 
no longer be mentioned with refpeft ; whilft Green, 
whom his difcerning eye had feleded from a croud of 
warriors, was extending fafety and protedion to the 
cultivators of the South. And now, let us attend 
to the laft concluding fcene of this eventful conteft 
— Behold our General atYork-Town proving himfelf 
equal to the extremities of either fortune, and as far 
from being elated with a royal army and its enter- 
prifing leader at his mercy, as he had been from fuf- 
fering himfelf to be deprefled when retiring before 
fuperior numbers through the Jerfies : Behold him 
employ the laft moments of command in reconciling 
our gallant foldiers to a difappointment, which their 
long fuiFerings during the war had but ill prepared 
them for ; fee him rendering back into the hands of 
the reprefentatives of the people, thofe extenfive 
powers with which he had been entrufted, account- 
ing for and arranging with the moft fcrupulous exadl- 
nefs, the various dilburfements which had pafTed 
through his hands, taking a paternal, and a laft fare- 
well of thofe to whofe deareft intereft he had fo long, 
and fo fuccefsfully attended, and retiring.amidft the 
bleftings of thoufands to the ftiades of private life. 
How far removed is fuch conduc5l from that of the 

hero 



( 13 ) 

hero of the Englifh Republiciii thelaft century? How 
far is it removed from thofe outrageous circumftances 
which have lately changed the appearance of what 
appeared to be the form of government in a diftant 
country ! But let not our ideas of happinefs owe any 
thing to the fatal miftakes and misfortunes of other 
nations, let us not infult the afhes of our beloved 
General by comparifons which would degrade him; 
but let the imagination in queft of fimilar fentiments 
and fituations carry us back to Timoleon converfing 
with his fellow citizens in the fquares of Syracufe, 
or to the illuftrious citizen of Genoa, who facrificed 
all thoughts of aggrandizing himfelf to the virtuous 
fatisfacflion of eftablirtiing liberty in his native coun- 
try, aflerting, that the happinefs of feeing his fellow 
citizens in pofleflion of freedom, was to him a full 
reward for all his fervices. 

It requires not much experience to know how 
fallacious are thofe hopes which are founded upon 
future occurrences, and how fhort is frequently the 
duration of thofe comforts and enjoyments which we 
have been moft defirous of attaining to. Scarcely 
had our General re-affumed the peaceful avocations 
of rural life, and returned to his farm like another 
Cincinnatus, when the voice of his country was 
once more to be attended to: Many very material 
objefts were now difcovered to ha\ c been neglecfled, 
or left incomplete in the formation of the firft con- 
federacy, which though it had carried the United 
States in triumph through the war, was yet extremely 
inadequate to the purpofes of peace, and to that 
energy of interior legiflation, which could alone 
enfure the duration of thofe facred rights for which 
we had contended. America was yet to aflume its 
proper ftation amongft the nations of the earth, and 
the people and the fovereigns of Europe were yet 
to be taught to refped; the rifing Empire of the 

Weft : 



( 14 ) 

West : A convention of the States was therefore 
called by general confent, and who fo proper to 
prefide at luch a meeting was the general voice ; who 
fo interefted in the political and civil welfare of our 
common country as he whofe prudence had de- 
fended and whofe valour had protefted it ? To 
the conftitution of the government fo formed, 
to its fuperiority in every refpedl over that which 
had been produced amidft the extreme agita- 
tion of the revolutionary war, and its proper 
compound of thofe efficient parts which yet dif- 
tinguifh the once parent ftate, where alone in 
all Europe the footfteps of liberty may yet be traced, 
I will not call your attention — much yet remains to 
be faid of the ever refpefted fubjedlof this addrefs, 
and my heart is oppreffed by that termination to 
which I feel I am approaching. The happy confe- 
quences which the new conftitution was produdiveof 
are fenfibly felt by us all, and long may they continue 
to be fo ; but admire, my fellow citizens, our fingu- 
lar felicity in having had upon its firft eflay a Prefi- 
dent who poffefled a weight of perfonal charafter 
equal to all the difficulties of that extenfive depart- 
ment — this alone raifed him far above the cavils of 
the fadious, and the complaints of the ignorant; to 
this alone, together with a confcioufnefs of his own 
uprightnefs, could he have trufted, when overlook- 
ing the prejudices of the moment, he took upon 
him in conjundiion with the Counfellors which the 
law had given him, to form such relations with for- 
eign powers as he thought moft for our intereft, to 
check with the hand of authority the interference of 
foreign agents, to aflert his conftitutional right of 
withholding fuch documents as in his judgement ap- 
peared of a nature not to be communicated, and to 
crufh without a moment's hefitation the firft appear- 
ance of revolt. 

It 



( 15 ) 

It is proper in all nations that thofe who reprefent 
the majefty of the people fliould be at times encir- 
cled with the enfigns of authority, and that the 
fplendourofthegovernmenttheyadminifterfhouldbe 
in fome meafure apparent in their perfons : and here, 
my fellow citizens let me call to your remembrance, 
for we have poflefled hi mamongft us,let me cai 1 to you r 
remembrance the plain, and yetdignified deportment 
ofhim whofelofswedeplore — it wasnot atriumphant 
General who came amongft us, nor yet the femblance 
of a monarch ; it was the firft magiftrate of a free 
people, it was a father who vifited his children, who 
delighted in their carefles, and who kindly accepted 
of their efforts to pleafe, and to entertain him. 
With what jov was he not received, with what ar- 
dour was he not addrefled by all ranks and orders of 
people? And how readily did the public imagination 
furround him with trophies of vitflory, and convert 
the unadorned vehicle which conveyed him into a 
car of triumph! Behold, faid they — but why fliould 
I borrow the language of admiration ? No, let me 
rather recall your minds to the melancholy truth, and 
let us remember, that the father of his country now 
lies mingled with the duft! the ornaments of eloquence 
are here unneceflary, the fimple accents which pro- 
ceed from the heart are alone fufficicnt — you feel for 
yourfelves, your children, and your country. 

A period was at length arrived when our general, 
having filled the Prefidency for eight years, could 
again retire to private life, to the fociety of a fmall 
circle of friends, and to the purfuits of agriculture. 
This interval however, was but of ftiort duration, 
and we again behold him compelled to relinquifh his 
moft earneft wifh, we fee him yield to the folicita- 
tions of the refpeflable perfonage who had fucceeded 
him in office, and to the demands of his country. 

A tremendouspolitical phenomenon hadappeared 

in 



( i6 ) 

in France — the abufes of a government originally 
good, the lavifh expenditure of public money, the 
general difregard of religion and morality, which 
creeping like a low-born mift, had enveloped by de- 
grees all orders of the ftate; the cruel and mortifying 
oppreffion under which a moftufeful part of thecom- 
munity had long laboured, and the arts of interefted 
and faftious individuals had efFefted a revolution — 
the ancient monarchy was deflroyed, and a ferocious 
democracy eftablifhed in its (lead. The monarch 
was dragged to public execution, his family difperfed 
or murdered after enduring every fort of humilia- 
tion, and all the decencies of religion, nay religion 
itfelf trampled upon, whilft every facred maxim 
which flows from the rights of mankind, was made 
to countenance licentioufnefs, to authorife violence, 
to conceal the depravity of indifcriminate plunder, 
and to embitter the unavoidable inequalities of life, 
by infpiring the lower order of fociety with falfe 
ideas and vain expectations. 

Had France, potent in arms, improved by fcience, 
and embelliflied by all the arts and elegances of life, 
availed itfelf of its ancient form of government, of 
which numerous traces were ftill to be found amidft 
the abufes and corruptions of monarchy ; had its ar- 
mies in their firil fuccefsful inroads into the neigh- 
bouring ftates protefted the honor and property of 
thofe who met them with offers of friendfhip and 
fraternity, had they refrained from all interference 
with the governments of diftant and unoffending 
communities, defpotifm might have been driven from 
the furface of the earth, and the caufe of liberty 
rendered refpeftable in the eyes of all mankind: but 
I need not attempt to inform you how far the reverfe 
has taken place, you will of yourfelves remember 
that the independence of the mod ancient common- 
wealth in Europe, where the vivifying fpirit of in- 

duftry 



( 17 ) 

duftry had realized all that nature had denied, where a 
few marfhy iflands at the extremity of the Adriatic 
had by degrees become the feat of empire, and a 
magnificent capital had arifen from the bofom of the 
waves, has been bartered away for territory ; that 
neither the moft undeviating neutrality, nor even a 
ftate of unenviable poverty, has preferved Switzer- 
land; that Italy has been ravaged with fireand fword, 
unoffending fovereigns driven with ignominy from 
amongft their people, and Rome, the venerable mif- 
trefs of the Pagan and the Chriftian world, after having 
been ftripped of what the barbarians of former times 
had fpared, has been infulted with the cruel mockery 
of ficflitious liberty. 

Whilft the ftorm raged at a diftance we remained, 
though not unmoved, yet filent fpe(5lators of the 
awful fcene ; we lamented the misfortunes of thofe 
lefs fortunately fituated than ourfelves, and we re- 
gretted that a nation, whofe fympathy in the hour of 
our diftrefs can never be forgotten, ftiould in its 
progrefs towards freedom fo widely and fo fatally 
deviate from that firm and temperate policy, which 
could beft have enfured the attainment of it : but 
the tempeft at length approached our coafts — already 
had the fertile plains of a neighbouring ifland been 
ftained with the blood of its wretched inhabitants, 
already had fuch as efcaped the rui;) of their coun- 
try, taken refuge in our cities, and communicated 
their alarms upon a fubjedl which comes home to 
the apprehenfions of us all ; faftion too was bufily 
employed to bewilder the imagination of the people 
with theoretical fpeculations in matters of gov- 
ernment, and the ruling powers of France mifled 
by fome appearance of difunion in the United States, 
and intoxicated in their career of vidory, prefumed 
fo far upon a temporary naval fuperiority as to at- 
tempt the deftrudion of our commerce, whilft the 

reprefentatives 



( i8 ) 

reprefentatives of our government approaching 
them with refped, but with the language and in the 
attitude of freemen, were amufed with infidous 
offers for a time, and then repulfed with difdain. 
No refource was now left us but our courage and our 
force ; a fleet was equipped, and the fons of Ameri- 
ca were called upon once more to array themfelves 
under the banners of their country, whilft the aged 
warrior, who had conducted us through the former 
war, now again buckled on his armour, and prepar- 
ed him for the conteft at the head of his fellow citi- 
zens : But it pleafed heaven to determine otherwife 
— in the midft of theduties impofed upon him by the 
new engagements he had contraded, in the midft of 
thofe arrangements which were didlated by experi- 
ence, and of thofe refledllons which originated in 
the pureft patriotifm, he was taken from us by that 
all powerful hand which regulates thefateof Empires. 
Let it however alleviate our forrow to refled, that 
he, who had walked uprightly before God, who had 
fulfilled the various duties of public and private life, 
may have furveyed unmoved the approach of the 
king of terrors. He has clofed the long glories of 
an illuftrious life with a peaceful .death, and refts 
forever. 

And here, my fellow citizens, I will conclude 
with calling your attention to the laft publicly de- 
clared fentiments of our beloved General — confider 
them as proceeding from a father to his children — 
and reprefent to yourfelves, that it is his voice which 
calls to you from the tomb : — 

" Let the union of the ftates, and the reciprocity of 
" interefts be the ground work of our political exift- 
"ence — let us difcountenance all illegal aflociations 
'* — let the illiberal fpirit of party be forever banifhed 
" — let juft and amicable feelings, devoid of all partial- 
" ities and antipathies regulate our conducft towards 

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" all nations — let us guard againft the interference 
" of foreign agents in our internal concerns — but 
" above all, let us be convinced, that no form of 
" government whatfoever can long exift which is not 
" founded upon virtuous principles, and no policy 
" be in the end fuccefsful, which is independent of 
" religion and morality." 

Such was the laft advice of him whofe hope of 
fame was built upon the glory and advantage of his 
native country, fuch were his enlightened fentiments, 
and if they acquire force, as I truft they do, from 
the melancholy circumftance which recalls them to 
our attention; if we cherifh them as connedled with 
all that is right and honorable, vain will have been the 
triumph of death over our illustrious chief: — it has 
removed him from a world recommended indeed by 
friends, by fortune and by greatnefs, but befet with 
many ills, and much inquietude — it has removed 
him from tranfitory objeds to the rewards of im- 
mortality. He lives — he will forever live in the 
hearts and minds of all good men, and the name of 
Washington, infcribed amidft thofe of the great 
benefacflors of mankind, and rendered ftill more 
venerable by the lapfe of ages, will defcend with 
never fading glory from generation to generation. 




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